The Amazing Randi: Pro Gays - Anti Psychics

Congratulations to the Amazing Randi on his admission he's gay, though I'm in agreement with him over his resentment of the term.

I only hope some of his sceptical chums don't turn out to be closet homophobes, and I certainly hope some of those who consider themselves in fundamental disagreement with him over his position on matters paranormal don't reveal themselves to be homophobic either.

My one quibble with him, though, is how someone who's long seen and experienced the world from a different point of view to what's still considered the norm - heterosexuality - can't conceive there're people out there who also genuinely perceive and experience the world differently from the norm: psychics, mystics, call them what you will.

Right up to the present day there're people who still think homosexuals should be electroshocked, lobotomised, brainwashed, physically beaten into submission - whatever it takes - in order to save them from themselves; yet there're also people out there who view psychics as similarly mentally ill and openly call for the same sort of treatment to be prescribed for them.

Similarly, just as many homosexuals over the ages've been forced into shady activities over the ages to get by or even survive, so've many psychics - but that doesn't mean all homosexuals're bad people, so why does it seem to be taken by some as proof all psychics're woo-woo merchants, shysters, crooks?

Some people'll tell you homosexuality is merely an affectation of young people, an indulgence for effect, a device merely to shock, something they hope they'll ultimately grow out of - but during the documentary about the Girl With the X-ray Eyes, one of her sceptical detractors said the same thing about her.

Others'll tell you even if it's true homosexuals can't help themselves, they still should be marginalised and kept out of sight, not celebrated on shows like Will & Grace - but this is exactly the same thing many of the sceptics're trying to do to the psychics!

All I'm saying is, isn't it possible that just as homosexuals have their own unique non-heterosexual way of perceiving and interacting with the world, isn't possible exactly the same's true of so-called psychics, (a term, by the way, "I use...because it’s recognized and accepted")?